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$4000 in prizes from ART-Town

by http://www.chapelstreet.com.au

The Chapel Street Precinct and ‘ART- Town’ sponsors are offering $4000 worth of Visual Arts Awards to Artists who participate in the 2012 ART-Town Competition.

ART-Town invites artists and the wider community to take advantage of the largest art gallery and studio in the world; the street.

Over two weekends the Chapel Street precinct welcomes 30 artists as they create artworks live on the street in four highly-visible locations; Grattan Gardens, the Colonnade, Yarra Lane and Windsor Shoe Repairs. ART-Town visitors and passers-by are treated to a rare glimpse into the artists’ creative process as they are inspired by their surroundings.

Challenging the notion that public art has to be permanent, the works created during Art Town’s live art weekends will then move to a temporary exhibition space at Chapel off Chapel.

Art-Town encourages online expressions of interest in this project from all artists, whether student, amateur or professional, and all forms of art will be considered for inclusion. The 30 artists selected to participate will be eligible for the ART-Town Artists Awards – as judged by preeminent art and community identities – which includes a $2000 first prize and a public-voted People’s Choice award.

Key Dates

  • Live Art Weekends – Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 February and Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 March 2012
  • Four locations; Grattan Gardens, the Colonnade, Yarra Lane and Windsor Shoe Repairs
  • Judging – Monday 5 March 2012

Exhibition opening night and Artists Awards ceremony

  • Wednesday 7 March 2012, 6pm at Chapel Off Chapel
  • Exhibition, Wednesday 7 to Monday 26 March 2012 at Chapel Off Chapel

The deadline for registration is Monday 20th February 2012.

Click here to download Expression of Interest Form

Contact: Project Co-Ordinator Margaret Kernich 0414 742 957

The Art Town public art project and exhibition is presented by Streets Ahead Promotions and supported by the City of Stonnington.

 

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happy holidays!

one hundredth gallery would like to thank all of our artists, visitors, and buyers for your support throughout 2011.

one hundredth gallery was just an ‘idea’ at this time last year. In seven short months we have exhibited over 40 new artists; showed over 1,000 people through our gallery; and have had over 50,000 page views on our website.

one hundredth gallery will reopen on Thursday 5 January with ‘Utter Silence‘ by Simon O’Carrigan (Australia), Maria Ester Pena (Colombia), Gillian Warden (Australia), and Maria Antonietta Bevilacqua (Italy).

 

Wishing you a happy, healthy, and safe New Year!

 

 

 

 

 

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TopArts2012 salon des refuses

Are you an art student in VCE whose work wasn’t accepted into TopArts? Or do you know an art student in VCE whose work didn’t make the cut?

If there is enough interest, one hundredth gallery would like to hold a TopArts 2012 Salon des Refuses in February 2012.

Salon des Refusés is French for ‘exhibition of rejects’. It was generally used to describe an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon. The term is now used widely to describe works that they may be too avant-garde for the mainstream exhibition (regardless of the venue).

one hundredth gallery would like to sponsor this exhibition and is now calling for submissions from interested artists. Submission need to be no more than a page and need to include a photo of the artwork along with its dimensions, details, medium etc., and a short artist’s statement.

Submissions can be emailed to charles@100thgallery.com by 5 January 2012. If you would prefer to have a chat, please call on 0413 00 1234 or come into the gallery during any of our opening hours.

We will exhibit as many works as we can and may rotate works to provide as many new artists with an exhibition opportunity as possible.

 

The image below is of Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) by Édouard Manet. It was rejected by the Paris Salon in 1863. It now hangs in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

 

 

 

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merging fashion & art

one hundredth gallery is all about exhibiting aspiring and emerging artists, regardless of their craft or medium.

Tonight we open a showcase by fashion labels Bento and Edenborough Evans.

Bento was born in 2010 from the idea that all fashion didn’t have to be throwaway and fashion forward. Effortless, timeless and enduring, Bento is built on the principle of style that has longevity – both in terms of design and quality. Each and every Bento piece goes from concept to completion within 20km of their studio in Melbourne, Australia.

Edenborough Evans welds art with fashion. Appealing equally to clients such as the National Gallery of Victoria, Marie Claire magazine and celebrity fashionista Ruby Rose, the brand blends opulent Florentine design with Melbourne street style.

The showcase will be open to the public this Friday and Saturday (the 9th and 10th of December). Both labels are offering 20% off current season stock.

Where – one hundredth gallery, 49 Porter Street Prahran
When – Friday 9 December from 11am and Saturday 10 December from noon

The showcase will be held amongst our current exhibition, ‘Colour Study’ by Tony Edelman and Tina Alesi.

 

 

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want to steal banksy?

by the Art Series Hotel Group

The Challenge

The art at Art Series Hotels is not for stealing. But this Summer, we’re shifting the goalposts and hiding a Banksy in one of our Hotels for you to steal. The $15,000 masterpiece is one of just a handful of signed and authenticated Banksy’s available in Australia. Find it, as it does the rounds of our hotels, and it could be yours…

The Bounty

‘No Ball Games’ is part of a series of historical note. In 2007 a group of bandits removed a section of a wall with an angle grinder because Banksy had stencilled around the ‘No Ball Games’ sign on it. The wall was later found on ebay for sale for 20,000 pounds. The lengths some people go to…

Art has a history of theft and heist, one which Melbourne features in. In 1986 Picasso’s Weeping Woman was stolen from the NGV and held for ransom. It was later found in a locker at Spencer Street Station – ransom unpaid. Banksy, being Banksy has also done the reverse, and has actually snuck his work into famous galleries to hang alongside more traditional curated art.

So now it’s your turn. We want to see if you can steal Banksy. We highly recommend against an angle grinder, but you will need plenty of guile and cunning.

No Ball Games will hang from 15 December. Book to stay at Art Series Hotels between 15 Dec and 15 Jan, follow us on Twitter and Facebook for hints on its whereabouts, and let the games begin.

Find the art and try and steal it. If you don’t get caught it’s yours to keep. If you do get caught then back up on the wall it goes.

 

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introducing one hundredth [agency]

We are very excited to announce that we have opened one hundredth agency – an offshoot of one hundredth gallery focused on representing and promoting aspiring and emerging artists’ artwork outside of the physical gallery space.

This business was due to start in mid-2012, however due to a significant volume of enquiries, we have fast-tracked the set up.

To date, we have focused on only promoting artists that have exhibited in our space.  one hundredth agency now gives us the opportunity to represent and promote artists that aren’t able to exhibit in the gallery for whatever reason.

In the spirit of one hundredth gallery, we aim to keep things very simple.

one hundredth agency will provide artists with the following services –

  • We will act as a contact point for sales of up to 12 of artworks (i.e. artists can use our contact details for sales enquiries – phone, email, and physical address)
  • Artists can use the gallery as a meeting place with interested buyers (kind of like their own serviced meeting room)
  • Artists will get a personalised online exhibition with up to 12 featured artworks and a dedicated URL to use wherever they please (http://100thgallery.com/your-name)
  • Promotion of images on the http://100thgallery.com homepage on a rotation basis
  • Ongoing promotion through our facebook, twitter, and tumblr accounts and on our blog and website
  • Priority access to gallery bookings

To ensure a comprehensive level of service, one hundredth agency will only represent 100 artists per year. As an introductory offer, the annual fee for the service in 2012 is a flat $110 for the full year January-December 2012. The normal price of $220 per year will start in 2013. A sales commission of 25% of the selling price of the 12 listed artworks will also apply.

We are dedicated to the ongoing promotion of artworks by aspiring and emerging artists and by established artists who are trying something new.

one hundredth agency is all about meeting these objectives.

If you would like one hundredth agency to represent you and your art, or if know an artist that we should represent, then please get in contact on 0413 00 1234 or charles@100thgallery.com

 

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introducing tina alesi

Tina Alesi is an abstract artist currently exhibiting (and selling) a collection of oil paintings and multimedia collages at one hundredth gallery.

Tina will be exhibiting her artworks until 18 December.

The official opening night for Tina’s exhibition starts at 6.30pm this evening and everyone is welcome.

one hundredth gallery is for everyone new to art

49 porter street prahran
between greville and commercial
open wed-fri 11-7 | sat-sun 12-5

 

Painting and creating for me always offers a unique experience into colour. When I work with paint I have the feelings of being connected to the present moment of painting and who I really am. I enjoy the process of painting and playing with colours and creating shapes. When I paint I let the present moment take over to create a painting that speaks the truth of paint and myself.

I usually like to use bright colours that are fun and cheerful. While there are wars and starvation in the world and we are all affected by the struggles of globalisation, I want to bring back happiness through paint, and colour. I work from the ideas of craft and the idea of the hand made as an integral element of my work. Expressionism and abstraction is the most honest way for me to express my inner feeling and ideas. I am influenced by contemporary cultural elements such as music, language, fashion and advertising. I am interested in the elements of what creates high Art and low Art or craft. I also play on these ideas and use irony with the art world and art culture, to create a deeper dialogue of what art is and who are artist. These influences create who I am and how culture has impacted on my life.

Creating ART is a passion I am absorbed by and the need to create and celebrate life and paint is how I feel towards my work. This body of work is a celebration of painting and colour. When people that see my work I would like them to connect with that energy and enjoy the depth of what colour and paint can do.

– Tina Alesi

 

To see more of Tina’s work, please click here or on the image below.

 

 

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introducing tony edelman

Tony Edelman is an abstract artist that lives and works in Toorak. He is currently exhibiting (and selling) a collection of acrylic paintings and chalk-pastel drawings at one hundredth gallery.

Whilst Tony’s artwork is on display from today, the official opening night starts at 6.30pm tomorrow (Thursday 1 December) and everyone is welcome. Tony’s exhibition runs until 18 December.

one hundredth gallery is for everyone new to art

49 porter street prahran
between greville and commercial
open wed-fri 11-7  |  sat-sun 12-5

 

Through the use of colour and abstraction, the works in this exhibition express what is around me, be it nature, the city and its people and the things in the home.

For me, abstract art enables the viewer to see the work in many different ways.  The art becomes personal and subjective as each person will respond to it individually.  For me, art in an abstract form is all about colour and shape.  When it hangs on a wall its expression is endless.

– Tony Edelman

 

To see more of Tony’s work, please click here or on the image below.

 

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colour study | opening thursday evening

Whilst we pack the unsold works from Abstract Collective, we would like to invite you to one hundredth gallery’s end of year celebration and the opening night of Colour Study, an exhibition by Tony Edelman and Tina Alesi

This is our final exhibition for 2011.

Tony and Tina will be exhibiting more than 30 of their artworks until Sunday 18 December with sale prices from $300. Art as a Christmas present? Sure, why not!

The opening night starts at 6.30pm on Thursday 1 December and everyone is welcome.

one hundredth gallery is for everyone new to art

49 porter street prahran
between greville and commercial
open wed-fri 11-7  |  sat-sun 12-5

 

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